If you were a fanatic of SimCity growing up you surely can understand the overwhelming wave of optimism and teeth-biting anticipation of SimCity 5 and its upcoming release. Simulating urban design however doesn’t have to be limited to SimCity, to quench your thirst-of-anticipation for the next release we wanted to share StreetMix.net. An ongoing experiment […]
Archives for March 2013
All the news without the social noise
Keeping track of your friends is pretty easy with all the social media options they have to share. Favorite moments are captured on Instagram, what their thinking is on Twitter, and everything else is on their Facebook pages. But what if they were featured in the NY Times? Unless they post the link boasting their […]
Crowdfunding your app idea so you don’t have to hire a developer
SellanApp crowdfunds for your app idea to make it a reality on the App Store. You might have a great idea, but don’t want to hire or become a designer, developer, ux expert and branding professional to make your idea into a product. SellanApp makes ideas happen by helping those that need help with development […]
The news with augmented reality targeted at children
Using augmented reality effectively has been buggy, cumbersome and sometimes inefficient – it just seems that very few are capable of implementing it in a useful way. Tokyo Newspaper, also known as Tokyo Shimbun, and Dentsu Tokyo created an app that is simple enough to use with augmented reality that it’s targeted at kids. In […]
Soloshot
It started with surfers trying to figure out how to film themselves while they practiced their craft, but without a cinematographer. Soon after Soloshot was born. Pairing an armband mounted GPS sensor to a Soloshot base affixed to a tripod and camera; once paired, the Soloshot base follows your path pointed toward only the armband […]
How to design for hackers
We meet entrepreneurs of all kinds, some are tech geniuses but with no design background, others are business oriented but have no understanding of the intricacies of user experience and interfaces and vice versa. But let’s focus on the former – people can make software do almost anything if they understand how to code, but […]